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Vitaliy Khaev has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s.
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USSR, June 1985. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life. Based on actual events.
Dir. Klim Shipenko · With Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Samoylenko

A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.
Dir. Konstantin Buslov · With Yura Borisov, Olga Lerman, Artur Smolyaninov

An ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the factory, or in the army - he was inevitably put in goal.
Dir. Vasily Chiginsky · With Alexander Fokin, Yuliya Khlynina, Aleksey Guskov

Andrey, a detective and the world's most horrible father, brings together a terrible group of people in his apartment: his resentful actress daughter, an angry thug, and a cheated cop. Each one of them has a reason to want revenge..
Dir. Kirill Sokolov · With Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Vitaliy Khaev, Evgeniya Kregzhde

Ilya Goryunov has spent seven years in prison on false charges of drug trafficking. When Ilya is free he realizes that the old life that he yearned for is no more. Although he did not intend to take revenge on the man who sent him to prison, now there is no other way out.
Dir. Klim Shipenko · With Alexander Petrov, Kristina Asmus, Ivan Yankovsky

The story is based on the real events of 1985. The team of a Russian polar icebreaker “Mikhail Gromov” discovered a giant iceberg. The ship came into collision while attempting to take cover from the weather and is forced to drift with ice along the Amundsen Sea coast. The crew of “Gromov” spent 133 days of polar night trying to find a way out of their icy trap. They have no room for mistakes; one wrong move and the vessel is crushed by ice.
Dir. Nikolay Khomeriki · With Pyotr Fyodorov, Sergey Puskepalis, Anna Mikhalkova
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